Philosophy

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A few points.

(1) The history of startup societies is actually one of great success. William Penn’s Pennsylvania worked. The Massachusetts Bay colony worked. Oneida worked. The United States of America, for all its flaws, worked for 250 years. Really, virtually every major city and country in the Americas was essentially founded from scratch in the last few hundred years.

(2) Moreover, these new startup societies were responsible for many of the democratic innovations we take for granted. Concepts like representative democracy, written constitutions, and universal suffrage were pioneered, popularized, or reinvented in the New World. These social innovations then filtered back to Europe.

(3) Yes, no doubt many societies did fail, like Roanoke, and many of the new political ideas failed, like Prohibition, but in general without trying (and sometimes failing) there is no progress whatsoever — whether social or technological.

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The debate is getting interesting. Worth noting is that Penn paid the natives even though he was granted the land from England as debt repayment, which is pertinent to the point about local cultures. This worked for awhile, but eventually things took a turn and arguably the first known instance of chemical warfare, at Fort Pitt took place as blankets from the small pox infirmary cases were gifted to the native emissaries after they delivered an ultimatum to leave the fort if memory serves here.

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No no, thank you. I'm intrigued by this stuff, although I'm thinking more like Network DAOs, facilitated by machine intelligence organically taking root. Trying to build a working model, but there are serious technical and epistemological issues getting machine intelligence into a DAO. Working on solving for coherence, but I can't even get it straight in my mind if the Neural net is the intelligence or the context window (as in what exactly iwould be cohering). Agents have only deepened my confusion. Linking a series of instances, or access to the instances for the model. @askgina.eth any ideas what would be cohering for an LLM to have some coherence through time?